Neighborhood Ministries

VI-J Our society continues to  face a constant threat from Gay Rights groups. Though President Trump repealed the Obama pro-transgender decree, Gay Rights groups continue to threaten schools to get them to implement it. In addition, many liberal school boards are implementing them on their own in order to confuse and corrupt our children. Parents are being ignored by schools that promote transgenderism without telling them and do not tell them when their child begins to explore it. In fact, schools and children’s services are often hostile to parents who try to interfere. Teachers who refuse to implement the programs or even use the child’s preferred pronoun face severe punishment, including being fired. In addition, children are being deliberately confused as to their sexual identity through the programs being promoted through the schools and libraries in order to recruit them for the Gay life style. As free Americans, we have the ballot box to elect public officials who will resist such pressure and we can refuse to approve tax levies if they continue to promote the Gay lifestyle. We also have the right to protest and petition to oppose such things. If we do not use those tools now, we will lose them in the future. It is important for concerned citizens to stop this now.

The most serious threat comes from those who are transitioning. Chemical transitioning is expensive. Since it adds chemicals to the body which are foreign to its makeup, it creates problems with the body’s functions, as well as opening the person up to all kinds of physical ailments which would hamper their combat readiness and require costly medical treatment. Soldiers are given a physical to determine if they are physically able to handle training and combat, and it is foolish to enable them to undergo treatment that would jeopardize that capability. Sex adjustment surgery is an elective surgery and is very expensive. In addition, it does not change who the person is. A woman may change to look like a man but it does not change her muscle or bone structure which are not as adapted for strength as are those of a man, leaving her at a disadvantage in a combat situation. While proponents claim that it is necessary to prevent them from committing suicide, studies show it does not reduce the risk of suicide and may actually increase the likelihood of them committing suicide. The White House continues to push the Dept of Health and Human Services to increase efforts to ban conversion therapy (helping confused kids sort out their sexual feelings) and increase access to transgenders, including children, for sex therapy including sex blockers and adjustment surgeries. Kids who faced that confusion in the past usually worked out their confusion over time on their own or with professional help but today they are pushed to transition with no attempt to help them sort out their confusion. As a result, transitioning often does not solve their confusion, it often compounds it.

Government officials have gotten out of control and many no longer care what their constituents want, they are intent on satisfying the backers that finance their election campaigns. The Canadian legislature passed the “Youth and Family Act” in 2017 that added sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of things judges can consider in determining if parents are abusive. Indiana introduced a bill where a judge could charge parents with child abuse if parents opposed their child’s sexual orientation or gender identity,  and could take the child away. While that sounds far-fetched to many, an Ohio judge did take a child from its parents in 2018 and granted custody to the grandparents because the parents did not approve of their child’s gender identity. Child protection agencies are becoming increasingly hostile to parental rights and are giving more power to children to determine their future when they are too young to make such decisions. Planned Parenthood pushed an amendment to the State constitution through a State-wide vote. The amendment contained a small clause  buried in it which makes it illegal for anyone, including parents of a minor, from interfering with their child’s decision to obtain medical care, to prevent interference if the child wants to have an abortion and the law can be used to prevent interference in the child obtaining gender transition drugs and surgeries as well.

The increasing possibility of a woman finding a man in the lady’s room is causing added fear among women and parents of young girls. While it is understandable in isolated public restrooms, where there may not be many people around, it is increasingly seeping into large restrooms in heavily frequented areas. I have occasionally seen men bring their preschool daughters into the men’s rest room because they were too young to go to the toilet without assistance and their wife, ex-wife, or girlfriend wasn’t with them to assist. That is understandable, though it is a by-product of our disintegrating family structure. However, recently the frequency and age of the girls has been increasing. Recently at a large department store, I was in the restroom when a man brought in three kids, two boys and a girl. The girl looked to be about 10 years old. She apparently did not require assistance, since she went into the stall while he waited just outside it. Either he would rather bring her in the men’s room where he could make sure she wasn’t molested in stead of allowing her to go into the women’s room alone or she was afraid to go into the women’s room alone. Either one speaks of the consequences created by liberal politician’s reckless disregard for those who elected them.